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[Vadim Tkachenko <vadim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yasufumi,

But can't we make xtrabackup to accept --defaults-file=/etc/my.special.cnf
like all standard mysql utilities do ?


Yasufumi Kinoshita wrote:
> You can change the path in the
> 
> mysys/default.c
> 
> line
> 
>   errors += add_directory(alloc, "/etc/", dirs);
> 
> to your favorite directories.
> 
> We assume xtrabackup is build with the same source of the MySQL used.
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup
>    Importance: Undecided => Low
>        Status: New => Won't Fix
> 


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xtrabackup doesn't finds the config file in debian
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346056
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Status in Open source backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB: Won't Fix

Bug description:
I had to compile xtrabackup for 32 bits and I did so against MySQL 5.0.77 source. The problem? xtrabackup uses my_print_default_files() (libmysql/default.c) to look for config files. By default, the MySQL source looks for the config file in:

Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /usr/local/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf

Problem is that the deb mysql package puts the config file under /etc/mysql/my.cnf. So I guess that the tool should either do an extra check for that path or (more logically) add a cmd line flag to specify a config file (-c config_path).

Hope this helps :)

Alex